Are Humanoid Robots the Future of Work? China’s Betting Billions on Such Cutting-Edge Tech

The U.S. and China remain locked in a race for dominance in AI, a competition that intensified following the January launch of DeepSeek, a Chinese rival to ChatGPT. Now, the race has elevated a notch higher, with both nations ramping up efforts to develop humanoid robots designed to work alongside — and potentially replace  — humans in the workplace. One of China’s main players in perfecting humanoid mechanical workers is UBTECH, a Shenzhen-based robotics company. &nb